Clerical/Fidelity Far East**

Advantages: Low online prices
Disadvantages: All eggs in one basket

...is exceptional. For example, the UK Special Situations so far this year it has returned 12.8 per cent. 24.8 percent over the past year, and 18.4 percent over 3 years. Obviously investing in shares is a risk, but Fidelity has a good track record and is known for being very hot on research. It's a lot safer than trying to pick shares yourself. The best way to invest through Fidelity is online. They run something called a funds supermarket, which means you can buy into unit trusts run by Fidelity and also ones run by other companies. The charges are the same. Once you register with them online, you will generally pay an initial 2 percent fee plus annual charges of around 1-1.5 percent. The beauty of the online supermarket is that you can if you decide switch your investments around into different unit trusts for a 0.5 percent charge. This gives you... Read review

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Advantages: ISA, Ease of use, multiple funds under one umbrella.
Disadvantages: Time delay in receiving redemption payouts.

...INTRODUCTION: Fidelity Investments is one of the worlds largest privately owned asset management organisations. It opened its research office in London in 1973 and six years later offered funds to UK investors. It is now a leading provider of ISA's and also one of the leading fund managing houses. It also hosts a fund supermarket under the name of Fidelity FundsNetwork. My experience: I have found investing through fidelity useful in many ways. The most important being that I can put my finger in several different pies in the four corners of the investment world, and all from the comfort of my drawing room. ISA: If you are a UK tax payer you would definitely be welcome to the fact that you can invest some money that you squirrel away, without the worry that the taxman can eat a chunk of your profit/ gains. Here at fidelity... Read review

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Advantages: This is the best quality paper in Britain
Disadvantages: None

...it is so accurate, authoritative and neutral (the Wall Street Journal by contrast has a neo-conservative slant and is not trusted in Asia and Europe). Rumour has it that the F.T. is the only UK paper to be delivered to the White House every day. The Newspaper The daily FT has two sections, the main paper and Companies & Markets. This tends to get supplemented occasionally when they are doing special features on the Far East, Eastern Europe, or on particular industries. I tend to get the Weekend paper, which is published on Saturdays. In addition to the two main sections, the Saturday issue will have FT Weekend, FT Money, The Magazine and once a month the How to Spend IT supplement. The Main Section The main paper covers political and economic news from around the world. This is the main joy of the paper - it has such a Global... Read review

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